we are the ones we've been waiting for

well, 53% of us.
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i can't say i wasn't emotional election day. i couldn't stop dancing. part of me is sad that i couldn't be out in the street somewhere where a crowd was gathering, but i don't really like big ass crowds anyway. as time goes on i will prolly look back and wish i had a cool story to tell about november 4, 2008.
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kissing god goodbye
for most of the past week, i've wanted to blame the church for the passing of prop 8. i've already noted that my own church had played a relatively active, though horribly awkward and horribly STUPID, role in the yes on 8 push. while local media outlets seem to want to blame black people for prop 8's passing (how original, let's just blame black people), i've been almost sure that the coordinated surge from churches led to prop 8's passing.
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i've come to the conclusion that i won't discuss politics at home unless i absolutely have to, meaning unless my parents make me. my parents know pretty much where i stand, and i kinna know where they stand, though niether party actually knows why each stands there. (i'm pretty sure my parents attribute my liberal views to the simple fact that i went to berkeley, not to the fact that berkeley could've taught me to think for myself) and really, my parents are happy with me being who i am and having my own opinions. so what kind of son would i be if i wasn't happy that my parents have their own opinion as well?

ok that last paragraph infers that both of my parents are conservative (catholics, i'll just put that since i'm pretty sure that's where it comes from) and therefore republicans. but i've come to believe that just my mom voted for mccain. i'm almost certain that my dad secretly voted for obama. though i can't prove it because i won't ask him because of the first sentence in the previous paragraph.

before i keep going forward

i'm gonna go back.

i live next to a monster. a real one. it comes late at night and leaves early in the morning. sometimes it stays on the weekends. it gives me nightmares.

i just needed to get that off my chest.

fuckin monsters.

the pastor at my church is crazy

i'm serious.

does anybody have a digital voice recorder i can borrow? i need to record his next couple homilies.

i will first say that english is not the pastor's first language, and so sometimes it MAY seem as though he doesn't fully understand what he is saying, or the words he is making up. but that shouldn't be an excuse.

as it moves closer and closer to election day, the pastor painfully tries to inject political influence into his sunday sermon. usually it's the same ol shtick about prop 8, and even with that he scares me. two or three sundays ago, father had argued, [paraphrased] "we need to pass this proposition, blah blah blah, it is a human rights issue". and all i could do was put my head down in shock and disbelief. human rights?! are you kidding me? did you just infer that i need to vote yes on prop 8 because doing otherwise would be a violation of human rights?!

in his latest episode, pastor made more subtle attempts of political influence, saying that we are really only held to the law of god's image for us or something like that. in my opinion, he was only saying this just in case prop 8 doesn't pass.

but in any case, i need to record what he says. maybe i should even youtube it.

live blogging the last presidential debate

tonight i will be live blogging my own commentary on the presidential debate. hopefully it will be funny and worth your reading time. i'll be watching it on cnn, so as to understand which candidate is winning the squiggly line battle.

also the dodgers are losing, 1-0, to the phillies right now. top of the 2nd. i'll prolly be updating that as well. and i hate joe buck.

keep refreshing your window as the night goes on.

5:51pm
i love the focus group in cnn with soledad o'brien. i especially love how fast she talks and how slow the people react to her questions.

6:01pm
bob schieffer introduces the candidates. nice handshake between the two.

6:03pm
thank you, john, for that nancy reagan update. i was dying to know where she was.

6:06pm
is it me, or does obama look kinna tired? by the way, the women looooove obama, according to the orange squiggly line.

6:11pm
who is this joe the plumber?

6:17pm
ding, take a drink. mccain just said "spending freeze".

6:19pm
fuck you mccain. i love planetariums.

6:21pm
mccain just said "i'm not president bush" he finally has realized the game being played against him. finally. yikes. the women's squiggly line is dipping below the neutral line for mccain, and now the men's line is dipping below for obama.

6:25pm
bob schieffer has just asked about the tone of the campaign. instigatorrrr.
haha.. mccain is about to cry about an article written about him and sarah.

6:30pm
mccain refuses to look obama in the eye. haha.. now he's crying about tshirts.

6:38pm
this is quickly becoming a "he said she said" affair.

6:40pm
vice president question. i'm hoping mccain calls palin a fellow maverick.
mccain: "palin is a role model to all women"

6:45pm
cockamaney!!!!

6:55pm
without precondition. ding

6:59pm
haha.. look at the squiggly line dip, when mccain talks to joe the plumber.
i can't really type fast enough to point out all the stupid things that mccain does while obama is speaking. sometimes he's looking into the camera, while obama is answering. why?

7:14pm
this live blogging thing is harder than i thought. they're talking about abortion now. obama's weakness at that first debate.

7:16pm
yesss! education! i'm hoping obama shoots a shout out to ian.

7:27pm
mccain's smile is as creepy as hell!!!

7:31pm
debate's overrrrrrrrrrr. as they were shaking hands, mccain said "good job" about 124415 times.
also, the phillies are winning 5-1 top of the 7th. HOLLA!

even though yoshi's screwed up our order

amel larrieux is straight sickness.

when my goddaughter is old enough, i'll let her know that on the very same day that i became her godfather, i watched amel larrieux live, and ate chicken's feet.

i still want my fries with spicy miso aioli though.

(thank you wally for picking us up from the airport)
(thank you frances for waiting in line for us, while wally picked us up at the airport)
(thank you april for buying tickets =)

see how i used that last close-parentheses to make a smiley face? straight fire i tell you.